Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and Melinda posted identical tweets confirming their decision to split after remaining together for 27 years.
Billionaire couple Bill and Melinda Gates on Monday (May 3) announced that they were getting divorced. Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and Melinda posted identical tweets confirming their decision to split after reamining together for 27 years. Let's take a look at other billionaires divorces in recent decades.
1. Jeff Bezos and MacKenzie Scott
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Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos and MacKenzie Bezos ended their marriage in 2019 and finalised their divorce the same year. In March, MacKenzie Scott remarried Seattle science teacher Dan Jewett. She had received a 4 percent stake in Amazon, worth more than $36 billion, as part of the divorce settlement.
2. Sergey Brin and Anne Wojcicki
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Google co-founder Sergey Brin and 23andMe founder Anne Wojcicki split after eight years of marriage in 2015. According to a Business Insider report, the pair had reached a settlement for an undisclosed amount of money. Brin currently has a net worth of roughly $99 billion.
3. Steve and Elaine Wynn
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Steve and Elaine Wynn, the co-founders of Wynn Resorts, divorced for a second time in 2010. As part of the settlement reached between Steve and Elaine, the latter received 11 million shares of the casino giant worth an estimated $795 million at that time. Elaine is now worth $2.3 billion.
4. Adnan Khashoggi and Soraya Khashoggi
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Saudi Arabian arms dealer Adnan Khashoggi divorced his wife Sandra Daly in 1974 and their settlement totaled a then-record $874 million dollars.
5. Bernie Ecclestone and Slavica Radić
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Formula One executive Bernie Ecclestone, one of the richest people in the United Kingdom, divorced Croatian model Slavica Radić in 2009.The settlement was estimated at $1.2 billion. The details of their settlement are still under cover, but some reports claimed that Radić seems to be the one paying Ecclestone.
